Greece, which has been run by an interim coalition government since November, is struggling under the weight of painful austerity measures intended to bring down its huge debt.
Speaking earlier this year the Liberal Democrat-controlled Bath and North East Somerset (Banes) council said the weight limit was one of several measures being considered.
With a 13.3-inch diagonal widescreen display, the laptop has a starting weight of just three pounds4, measures about one inch thin and features a premium raised tile keyboard and a long battery life rating.
The growing weight of the stockmarket certainly suggests that conventional measures of the tightness of monetary policy may be misleading.
"Bakeries have an obligation to ensure that the weight of loaves meets the minimum weight standards laid down, and should have measures in place to check this, " he said.
In recent years countries including the UK, Mexico and South Africa have introduced measures to help police officers lose weight, as expanding waistlines and reduced fitness hamper the fight against crime.
The statewide teacher-evaluation system would be very different than the city's pilot program, with most of the weight put on principals' opinions and other subjective measures.
Although the trial has several limitations, children in the low sugar group scored significantly lower across multiple measures of obesity, including BMI, weight, skinfold-thickness measurements, waist-to-height ratio, and fat mass.
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He said falls could be prevented by measures such as encouraging the elderly to take weight-bearing exercise.
Capping magazine capacities, toughening mental health screening, and similar measures need not be loaded with that kind of weight.
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For instance, instead of using market capitalization as a basis for portfolio positions, some newer ETFs use other financial measures, such as revenue or dividend rates, to weight their holdings.
"I think I had, in the past couple of days prior to that, just an egg and a glass of water -- this is the extreme measures we have to go to in order to cut weight for our category, " she said.
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Although these measures hit people, not firms, they threaten to add weight to corporate decisions not to locate in Britain, or to move from it.
"The regulator concludes that so much weight on one grade in one subject as part of accountability and performance measures created perverse incentives for schools in the way they marked controlled assessment and led to the over-marking, " the report says.
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